In February, I was blessed with an opportunity to attend a Winter Women’s Retreat in the Hill country of Bandera, Texas, with Missionaries With The Vision (MWTV), San Antonio, Texas. This short Retreat offered me a 24 hour challenge of walking away from all of my normal daily routine and activities (busy-ness) and to just BE. Be what? Be Still and Know That He (The I Am) is God (Psalm 46:10) and to come to a quiet place and get some rest (Mark 6:31).
While at the Retreat, in the stillness of the evening and night, the Lord gave me Isaiah 43 with emphasis on verse 19, “Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it?”. A new thing springing forth? Shall I not know it?
As I look at what God does in Deliverance and Inner Healing from the view point of Isaiah 43, we see that God gathers up all of our rejected and disinherited parts from the north, south, east, and west (vs. 5-6) and shows us that He is with us as He calls us back unto Himself. He brings our pieces back together and causes us to know that He truly does love us and that we have been crafted by His hands, to bring Him honor and glory (vs. 7). During the deliverance and inner healing process, God causes us to see that even in the hard things and the traumas in our lives, that He has always been there, as we experienced these life events “passing through the waters and walking through the fires” (vs. 2). The Lord uses deliverance and inner healing to bring us through these hard and painful areas of our lives. Some of these areas have caused us to leave the reality of a situation and take on a false identity to survive.
The Lord says to us in the deliverance and inner healing process that He will open our eyes and ears and show us new things. Things we have never seen before. The Lord, our God, fights for us. He honors us! We are His! He has redeemed us through the precious Blood of His Son, Jesus the Christ!
As we experience deliverance and began to “walk out” our healing, we learn to walk in the “New Thing”. We realize that God has indeed rescued us from those dead and stagnant places in our lives, as His waters flood those areas and bring us back to life: refreshing us, reviving us. We begin to see that we can receive and experience His love, as we forgive ourselves and others. We began to know that God is so accessible to us and that His Word, as we decree and declare it over our lives, is changing us, by the power of His Holy Spirit. For Behold, God is doing a new thing! Let God’s new thing spring forth in your life. Walk in the New!
Prayer: Father, in the Name of Jesus, I decree and declare Isaiah 43 in the lives of your people that You are making all things new as You do a new thing in each of our lives. We see it springing forth and we embrace all You have for us. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.